Easel-support.



No. 686,4l7. Patented Nov. l2, l90l. A. B. MURRAY.

EASEL SUPPORT.

(Applicationfiled Aug. 27, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARCHIBALD B. MURRAY, OFSAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA.

EASEL-SUPPORT.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 686,417, dated November 12, 1901.

Application filed August 27, 1901. Serial No. 73,468. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AROHIBALD B. MURRAY,

a citizen of the United States, residing at San Rafael, county of Marin, and State of California, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Easel-Supports andI hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in easel-supports for pictures, cards, and the like.

My improvement consists'in an easel-support formed of a single and continuous piece of metallic wire bent to form the several members or parts of a simple and convenient easelsupport that maintains an elastic grip upon cards or pictures supported thereby, as here inafter more particularly described, and illustrated by drawings that form a part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide easel-supports of such simple and inexpensive'manufacture and convenience that their wider use can be permitted for mounting pictures, commercial cards, and similar uses, also the attainment in such supports of a form that permits their being packed in close bunches and packages for commercial purposes.

To these ends I construct easel-supports as shown in the drawings now to be referred to.

Figure I represents in perspective a picture mounted on one of my improved supports, the rear extension of the latter being indicated by dotted lines; Fig. II, an oblique or perspective rear View of Fig. I, and Fig. III aplan view of the easel-support detached.

As will be seen in the drawings, the easelsupport is formed of one continuous piece of metallic wire bent to rest at three points, A, B, and (J, with a rear extension D, that forms a back support, and two upturned extensions E and F at the front of the picture or card G. These front extensions E and F, being set in alinement with the divergent members H and J and rendered elastic by the elastic arms of the duplex rear support D, grip and have a slight-tendency to curve the picture and card G convexly on the front, which is desirable, also by elasticity of the wire will permit cards of different thickness to be inserted. This lastdescribed feature is one of much convenience, because in moving or handling a picture or card the easel-support adheres thereto and is so light inweight that it offers no impediment in moving the mounted articles for dusting or rearranging them, one hand only being required for this purpose.

The wire employed in constructing the easelsupports can be plain or plated and of any suitable metal. For photographs and ornamented cards it is preferably made of noncorrosive material and can be plated with gold, silver, or nickel and the dimensions be adapted to the size and weight of the cards or pictures to be supported, the general form remaining the same.

For commercial uses-such as supporting price cards, advertisements, or articles of trade that are mounted on cards-the supports are made accordingly of heavier or lighter plain Wire.

' The rear extension D can be bent to change the inclination of the picture or card G to any desired angle. The extensions E and F are preferably made 'short, so as to'not 0bscure or disfigure the faces of articles'when mounted.

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention and the manner of mak ing and applying the same, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent,

An easel-support, consisting of the duplex elastic rear support D, members H, J, diverging from said rear support and from each other and front extensions E, F, upturned in alinement with said members H, J, the whole formed of a continuous piece of wire, substantially as specified.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ARCHIBALD B. MURRAY.

Witnesses:

EDWIN W. WOODWARD, J. RICHARDS. 

